Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-02-24
COUNTY NEWS


"nANALES khcNTnk NH sbLtCs
Jolly 7. Is himself again nnd pre-
pared to wrinkle.
d. H. Shields and Ewing Xix are on
the sick list. Dave" Is convalesc.ug and
Mr.. Kinks case Is perhaps hopeless. as
he is low with consumption.
The whooping- cough Is raging among
the Juveniles Of the Republic.
G. G.. Stuart, one Of our citizens has
just recovered $3.50 Of the E. T., Y. &
@. railroad in the Federal court for inju-
ries sustained in q collision at johnson
City.
Landon Henley caught a jack fish a few
nights since which weighed 10 pounds.
All the public schools i ne Republic
have closed.
Mrs. ii. G. Lady closed d very success
full five months term at Mount Carmel
school house, in the list district. last Fri
dny night. The closing exercises were
highly entertaining to the large crowd
present.
Some of u farmers now and then are
breaking sod for corn.
Stave making has been the order Of the
day in u neck of the woods during the
winter. It has brought in many a shekel
to our needy denizens.
Many of our citizens rejoice that the
annual distribution of garden seeds from
Washington has begun so early.
All the parties who were so badly cut
up in the stabbing militia the first dis
trict. during the holidays. have recovered.
We may perhaps find out the casus 6eQi
at the next circuit court.
Early sown wheat is looking splendid.
~. The late sown is very unpromising.
Our farmers, who have clover seed to
thresh, are gloomy over the prospect Of
getting a huller in time to low and get
their surplus into market.
We are not a prophet nor the son Of a
prophet, but If a vacancy occurs in the
United States Senatorship to be filled by
appointment during Bob Taylor's admin
istration, Judge kirkpatrick win be the
man. For, how could Il be otherwise?
By that time the Blair bill will be popu.
lar, the politicians readily acquiscing,
and the Judge, from the first, recogniz-
ing u great educational needs, has been
q persistent advocate of that measure.
The Republic is beginning to feel very
lonesome. She is withouta boom" and
no hope of one. True, Ae has four or
five rope ferries across Chucky, but this
improvement by no means fills the meas
ure of the ambition of her more progress,
siye citizens,
With q few exceptions the tobacco
"craze' has eliminated IN a dismal fail.
ure. Those Of our planters. who have
realized most. have made no big money.
A large majority have made nothing-no,
even paying expenses. Having spent all
their time and labor upon this one crop,
they arc without provisions or the need
full to buy them. Parties. who made ad
vancements and took liens upon tho crops
have nothing else to do but bewaii and
repent of their folly. Moral: Better sticl
to grains and grasses ihs~so try sho On
certain method Of getting rich too fast ii
ways ye know not Of.
Our people, regardless OF parties, re
joice that the redistrictlpg scheme ha'
been foiled. They regarded It simply al
q measure to increase their taxes withou
a corresponding benefit. If the count,
court would employ its time in divisini
means to increase the efficiency Of GU
public school system and to equalise tn
burdens of taxation among The propert,
holders, the people would not be half s,
prone to look upon 1t as a necessary evil
jolly Ton.